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| Germany investigating 64 suspected extremist Islamists in armed forces | | | Germany's military counter-intelligence agency is investigating 64 suspected "extremist Islamists" working for the armed forces, a spokesman for the Defence Ministry said on Wednesday. People judged to be "extremist Islamists" are not permitted to work for the military. Between 2007 and 2016, 30 "extremist Islamists" went to Syria or Iraq after being employed in the armed forces, the spokesman said. |
| Police question suspect after Frankfurt airport security breach | |  By Maria Sheahan and Ilona Wissenbach FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German police said a misunderstanding may have led to a security breach that prompted the evacuation of Frankfurt airport's Terminal 1 and caused delays and flight cancellations at Europe's fourth largest airport on Wednesday. Police were questioning a female suspect who had entered into the departure gate area at Frankfurt, a major hub for international travel and home to Lufthansa, without completing the security check, a spokeswoman for the federal force told Reuters. The security breach interrupted flight operations, delaying departures and forcing some planes to divert to other German airports instead.
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| Swiss tell EU: Hands off veterans' assault rifles | |  By John Miller ZURICH (Reuters) - Friction between Switzerland and the European Union over the bloc's plans to tighten gun control following a rise in militant attacks could turn into another serious snag in ties already tested by Swiss efforts to curb immigration. The proposed directive, which applies to non-EU member Switzerland only because it is part of Europe's Schengen open border system, has raised hackles among the Swiss, who resent intervention from Brussels. Christoph Blocher, a leading voice of the Swiss right and a eurosceptic, says Switzerland should consider abandoning Europe's Schengen system of passport-free travel if the Swiss people rejected the proposed measures in a referendum.
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| Gabon poll count favours Bongo, opponent cries fraud | |  By Gerauds Wilfried Obangome LIBREVILLE (Reuters) - A count by Gabon's electoral commission on Wednesday suggested incumbent Ali Bongo had narrowly beaten challenger Jean Ping in a presidential election that Ping's camp denounced as fraudulent and said the Gabonese will not accept. A senior source in the commission and a member of the body allied to Ping's camp confirmed the commission numbers gave Bongo a 49.85 percent share of the vote to Ping's 48.16 percent. The electoral commission was scheduled to release the results of Saturday's poll on Tuesday evening, but by 11.15 a.m. (1015 GMT) the following day, the panel was still in a closed-door meeting.
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| Corrected: Turkey arrests 865 this year in Islamic State crackdown - minister | | | Turkey has arrested 865 people since the start of 2016 in its fight against Islamic State, and more than half of those were foreigners, Interior Minister Efkan Ala said in remarks broadcast on Turkish television channels on Wednesday. Thousands of foreign fighters from countries including Turkey, Britain, Europe and the United States have joined the Islamist militants in their self-proclaimed caliphate in recent years, many of them passing through Turkey. Turkey has since launched a crackdown on the networks facilitating their passage. |
| WIDER IMAGE: Brexit town wants government to 'get on with it' and leave EU | |  By Sarah Young CLACTON-ON-SEA, England (Reuters) - Gazing out across the calm, grey North Sea towards northern France, families in Clacton enjoy the English summer, some sipping tea, others with cans of beer, outside wooden beach huts strung with union jack flags. Two months ago, many residents of this town of 55,000 in eastern England, were celebrating: 70 percent of people in the area voted on June 23 to leave the European Union, helping secure Britain's 52-48 percent result in favour of quitting the bloc. "We need to get moving," said Janet Ford, 60, a retired bookkeeper at a Brexit-themed party held by UKIP in a pub.
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| Turkey seeks to push Islamic State from 90 km stretch of Syria | | | ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's week-long incursion into northern Syria aims to clear Islamic State fighters from a 90 km (56-mile) stretch of territory along the Turkish border, President Tayyip Erdogan's spokesman said on Wednesday. Ibrahim Kalin also told a news conference that Erdogan was expected to hold talks with U.S. President Barack Obama at a G20 meeting in September about a Turkish request to extradite U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, who Ankara says masterminded last month's failed coup. ... |
| Philippines' Duterte: Obama must listen to me on human rights | |  Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said on Wednesday he was ready to discuss any issues with Barack Obama when they meet in Laos next week, but added that the U.S. president must listen to him first before bringing up the question of human rights. Washington has expressed concern about a surge in drug-related killings since Duterte became president two months ago promising to wipe out narcotics in the Southeast Asian nation. Asked if he would be willing to discuss human rights at his meeting with Obama on the sidelines of an East Asia summit on Sept. 6, Duterte told reporters: "Depends to what degree.
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| Courting Republicans, Clinton to tout 'American exceptionalism' | |  By Caren Bohan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a foreign policy speech meant to reach out to Republican and independent voters, Democratic President Hillary Clinton on Wednesday will argue for a robust commitment to U.S. leadership in the world and tout the idea of "American exceptionalism." A Clinton aide said she would contrast her foreign policy approach with that of Republican Donald Trump, who puts the emphasis on what he calls an "America first" vision that includes a crackdown on illegal immigration and opposition to multinational trade agreements such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Clinton, a former secretary of state, plans to appear at 12:30 EDT (1630 GMT) at a convention of the American Legion veterans' group in Cincinnati.
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| Trump to make dramatic trip to Mexico before immigration speech | |  By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump will meet Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto on Wednesday in a hastily arranged visit to Mexico hours before delivering a highly anticipated speech on how he will tackle illegal immigration. Trump announced the trip on Twitter on Tuesday night and it was confirmed in another tweet by the Mexican government. "I have accepted the invitation of President Enrique Pena Nieto, of Mexico, and look very much forward to meeting him tomorrow," Trump said.
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| Tunisia police kill two militants, seize bomb belt in raid | | | Tunisian police killed two Islamist militants on Wednesday and seized arms and an explosive belt prepared for suicide attacks during a dawn raid in a central province following an earlier ambush on an army patrol, the interior ministry said. It said weapons, a suicide belt and other material was seized in the house. A civilian was also killed in clashes between police and the two suspects during the raid, a security source said. |
| Swiss refugee centre burns down, cause under investigation | | | A refugee centre in western Switzerland burnt down early on Wednesday, but nobody was injured and the cause of the fire was still unclear, police said. The fire brigade in the town of Biberist was able to put the fire out quickly after an alarm at 3 a.m. local time. A police spokesman said it could take two to three days for results of the investigation to emerge. |
| Australia's Turnbull hit over same-sex marriage as parliament opens | |  By Matt Siegel CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull came under pressure over same-sex marriage and from within his own party on Wednesday as parliament returned for the first time since a poor showing by his coalition government in elections last month. Turnbull's Liberal-National coalition was reduced to a razor-thin one-vote majority in the lower house after an early poll to break a deadlock in the upper house Senate backfired. The centre-left opposition Labor Party immediately dug in its heels over the government's proposal to hold a national plebiscite on same-sex marriage, which it considers expensive and unnecessary.
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| Rights group calls on Myanmar to investigate Rohingya woman's death | | | By Simon Lewis and Wa Lone YANGON (Reuters) - Human rights advocates have called on Myanmar to investigate the death of a young woman from the country's persecuted Rohingya Muslim minority, who died this month after being found naked and unconscious near a military base. The woman, identified as Raysuana, 25, was found by a road next to an army compound in Sittwe, the capital of the conflict-torn Rakhine State in western Myanmar, residents and rights group Amnesty International said. Most of the displaced are Rohingya Muslims, a group that many in Buddhist-majority Myanmar regard as illegal immigrants from Bangladesh. |
| Exclusive: Islamic State axe attacker planned to move to Germany - sources | |  An Islamic State supporter who was shot dead in Russia after he attacked police officers with an axe had planned to travel to Germany to join members of his family there, two people who knew him told Reuters. Usman Murdalov, 21, and his friend Sulim Israilov, 18, armed themselves with axes and attacked a traffic police post near Moscow on Aug. 17. In a video posted online a day later, they professed loyalty to Islamic State.
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| Hostage video aimed at pressuring Afghan government over militant case - Taliban source | | | The release of a video showing a U.S. and a Canadian citizen held hostage by the Taliban is designed to pressure the Afghan government not to impose the death sentence on the son of a feared militant leader, a Taliban source said on Wednesday. U.S. and Canadian officials have said they are aware of the video of Caitlan Coleman, a U.S. citizen and her Canadian husband, Joshua Boyle, who were kidnapped in 2012 while on a backpacking trip. A State Department spokesman said on Tuesday the validity of the video was being studied but offered no further comment. |
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